Drummer Brian Tichy (BILLY IDOL, SLASH'S SNAKEPIT, GILBY CLARKE, PRIDE & GLORY) has posted the following message at his official website:

"I will be going on a quick Canadian tour with my bud Gilby Clarke from SUPERNOVA/GUNS N' ROSES fame. But he's also played with HEART and the MC5. That boy don't stop!

Along for the ride will be Stefan Adika. He's also gonna play bass!

The dates are from April 4th through April 10th. Check out www.gilbyclarke.com for exact locations...

Gilby likes to take a break in the middle of the show and have a cocktail. This gives me a chance to let loose on a little 'Ode To Bonzo'... I like to call this portion of the show... "TICHIFIED!" Lookout!

So I got a sudden burst of blah blah blah adrenaline. I'm going in for the UPDATE! Firstly, for some more current news and pics, go to www.myspace.com and check out my page.

Just when I think I'm going to put some time into this here site, life kinda gets in the way. I'm gettin video clips together of footage from throughout my career. I have hundreds of personal Hi-8 tapes and now it's just a matter of getting them onto DVD and editing some of it. For all you Zakk Wylde, Slash, Ozzy, Foreigner, Billy Idol, Velvet Revolver fans... as long as those guys give me their blessing, I will be posting some footage of myself with them. Sooooooooo.........

There are some new pics here, and here's a bit of what's been going on the past few months...

NAMM '07...

I played a few times down at the NAMM show this past January. I did a couple songs with my friends Stevie Salas, Bernard Fowler and Doug Wimbish at Doug's "Wimbash". We all had a band called NICKELBAG. We put out a couple records in the mid 90's that were huge in Orlando, Florida for some reason! OK, maybe not huge but I think Orlando and maybe Japan were the only places we got some airplay and sold some CD's...

The guys are all good buds a great players. Fuckin' Bernard can really whip up a storm on vocals. He means business and it's always a pleasure to back him up on stage or in the studio. Stevie is a long time friend and like most things, when time goes by and you haven't been around someone, it's all too easy to forget how funny or talented they may be. Well, Stevie is one of them.... And he's in my top 3 people that can guaranteed make me laugh. (The other 2 are JD DeServio and Zakk Wylde from BLACK LABEL SOCIETY). The 3 of us were PRIDE & GLORY for a few months back in 1994 and the 2 of them together is a full on non-stop comedy routine. And Doug Wimbish is one hell of a nice guy and an insanely unique player.

Down at NAMM, I also played with JD and Nick Cantanese from BLS along with Mike Stone from QUEENSRŸCHE. We played at the Black Tooth Bash tribute to Dimebag Darrell concert. I had never seen a NAMM show so packed. I think that's 'cuz I was playing. It had nothing to do with Scott Ian, Tim "Ripper" Owens, Paul Gray from SLIPKNOT, Jason Bittner from SHADOWS FALL or Vinnie Paul from PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN/HELLYEAH! Anyhow, everyone jammed and kicked ass and it was chaos backstage and the cops were trying to shut it down and that was only soundcheck!

After Vinnie Paul came up and threw down hard, I got back up and did another show with Lemmy from MOTÖRHEAD. My bud Eric Singer couldn't play that night due to a bingo game he had to be at! Nooooo! He was sick and wasn't ready to play so he called me up. Lemmy was cool and afterwards he said something like "good job". That was fine for me. As long as Lemmy is cool with me, then my job was done.... Also with Lemmy was Damon Johnson from BROTHER KANE/ALICE COOPER and Kerri Kelly on guitars.

So that was the NAMM show... more info than ya ever thought ya needed!

SHAW/BLADES: Influences...

Jack Blades and Tommy Shaw of DAMN YANKEES/STYX/NIGHT RANGER fame have recently realeased a record called Influences. It is a CD of their favorite tunes they've covered. I did 8 songs with them back in 2004. It's finally seeing the light of day. They've been on XM radio/ Howard Stern/ VH1 etc... promoting it. They were very cool guys to work with and they did great job on this CD. While we were recording the drums at Jack's studio, the two of them would bust out into some harmonies with an acoustic. It was very impressive. They obviously have a great singing/writing chemistry together and it was a pleasure to do some recording with them. Jack and Tommy, thanks for the kind words on VH1 regarding my drum tracks!

IDOL/THEO/McG/SHERINIAN/MASTERSOURCE/FOREIGNER...

What else? ...Been putting ideas together for BILLY IDOL. We will be getting together soon. I have finally seen some of the Idol Live DVD footage filmed in Chicago last summer. It looks and sounds real good. Don't know when it will be out but it will.

I'm writing/recording/performing all instruments and voxs on some new songs for a company called Mastersource. They get my songs along with a ton of others in all kinds of TV shows and movies. I've been working with them for years and it's an interesting way to approach songwriting; you know it's not for your band or someone or thing in particular but it's got to be good enough to get the attention of the peoople who place the music in the TV shows, etc... Sometimes you end up writing stuff that you don't want to give away and keep for something down the road. Those songs may never have been written had you not been hired to write in the first place. Anyhow, it's a bit of a challenge but since I do it all myself from top to bottom, I work at my own pace and answer to no one. And that, my friends, is what we're all looking for! The songs I've written for Mastersource have ended up shows and movies such as C.S.I., Law And Order, The 40 Yr. Old Virgin, Darkness Falls, The Osbournes, One Tree Hill, Touched By An Angel, Supergroup, and a whole mess of others.

Also, just finished up a CD for a Greek guitar god named Theodore Ziras. He's a pretty insane player that recruited Derek Sherinian and myself to play on his new CD. We will be putting some MP3's up of Theo soon. It's metal-fusion-shred at its finest!

Derek Sherinian and I are also writing for his new CD. It's in the baby stages but as always there's gonna be some pretty aggressive/progressive new stuff on Derek's next CD.

Also doing some recording with Idol bassist Steve McGrath. He's got a surf movie he's working on so we are putting some high energy ideas together for that.

A few weeks ago Foreigner flew me in to Aspen, Colorado as a backup to their drummer, Jason Bonham. Apparently, due to schedule changes, travel and weather conflicts, there was a chance Jason's plane wasn't going to get him to the show on time. I got there, did soundcheck and an 1 1/2 hours before the show Jason pulled in to town. It was cool see the guys again and a very intersting/different/unique/strange way to be hired for a show! ..."I'm flying to Aspen to be on hold for Foreigner if Jason doesn't make the gig. No, I don't know if I'm playing."

I didn't even bring sticks! Now that's pretty funny!
So there's a few months of goings-ons.
Get the Shaw/Blades Influence CD. Check out Theodore Ziras' new CD. Listen to me and Billy Idol's version of THE WHO's 'Long Live Rock' on his and my MySpace page. We recorded it back in February of 2004. I tweaked the mix a bit and Billy sounds killer.
Also, check out the short clip of Billy with The Starf**kers singing VAN HALEN'ss 'Ain't Talkin' Bout Love' on our MySpaces. Thanks to any and all for your interest and support. I know, I really need to get this site updated. I will."